Pherecrates

• Pherecr. (abbreviation used in bibliography and lexicography)

Either from Latin Pherecratēs or directly from its etymon, Ancient Greek Φερεκρᾰ́της (Pherekrắtēs).

• IPA^(key): /fɪˈɹɛkɹətiːz/

Pherecrates

1. A celebrated Athenian poet of the Old Comedy, living in the fifth century BCE (born after Crates and Cratinus but before Aristophanes, Eupolis, and Plato Comicus – so between c. 519 and c. 446 BCE), victorious at least thrice at the City Dionysia and the Lenaia in the 440s–430s, and inventor of the Pherecratean metre.

• Pherecrates on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• “Phereʹcrates”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Φερεκρᾰ́της (Pherekrắtēs).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [pʰɛˈrɛ.kra.teːs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [feˈrɛː.kra.t̪es]

Pherecratēs m sg (genitive Pherecratis); third declension

1. Pherecrates (celebrated Athenian poet of the Old Comedy)
   • c. 500 CE, Priscian, Institutiones grammaticae
2. an old man from Phthia who features in one of the dialogues of Dicaearchus
   • c. 45 BCE, Cicero, Tusculan Disputations 1.21:

     Dicaearchus autem in eo sermone, quem Corinthi habitum tribus libris exponit, doctorum hominum disputantium primo libro multos loquentes facit; duobus Pherecratem quendam Phthiotam senem, quem ait a Deucalione ortum, disserentem inducit nihil esse omnino animum, et hoc esse nomen totum inane, frustraque animalia et animantis appellari, neque in homine inesse animum vel animam nec in bestia, vimque omnem eam, qua vel agamus quid vel sentiamus, in omnibus corporibus vivis aequabiliter esse fusam nec separabilem a corpore esse, quippe quae nulla sit, nec sit quicquam nisi corpus unum et simplex, ita figuratum ut temperatione naturae vigeat et sentiat.

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Third-declension noun, singular only.

• → English: Pherecrates
• → French: Phérécrate
• → German: Pherekrates

• Pherecrates on the Latin Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^la
• Phĕrĕcrătēs in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 1172/3.